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While unpredictability may account for the lure of gambling, reliability is an essential part of our everyday lives. Yellowstone National Park, which sits above the Yellowstone Caldera, contains half of the world’s geothermal features. Among the most famous is Old Faithful, a huge geyser that erupts at regular intervals. One reason tourists flock from all over the world to this park is that they know … Read More

The need for high reliability covers a wide array of market segments, all with differing acceptance requirements. In this video, Matt Hogan explores the challenges of comprehensive reliability verification, and demonstrates how Calibre PERC can help you satisfy the most demanding requirements with confidence.
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Designers are discovering a new class of design errors that is difficult to check using more traditional methods, and can potentially affect a wide range of IC designs, especially where high reliability is a must. There errors require electrical rule checking to complement the tradition layout checks.
Electrical rules are relatively complex, non-standard, and growing in number and type, creating a need … Read More

Verification of ESD structures and other protection circuits is often a time consuming and tedious task. How do you do it? Complex DRC rules? An assortment of specialized rule decks? Home-brew tools?
Recently a colleague and I published a paper which used one of the Mentor tools (Calibre® PERC) to help with this ESD checking.
If you’re interested, the paper is available on-line here:
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